Examples

I remember thinking at the time it was a really stupid idea, but apparently it had longevity, because those hands were the first thing I thought about when the word Ecclesiastes popped into my mind at two a.m.

MR. DANA PORTER: Referring to the Bible as a textbook on Economics, perhaps Mr. Gardiner will remember the reference in Ecclesiastes, where the words are used: "In times of prosperity rejoice; in years of famine consider."

However, I have an overriding sense (or philosophy) that it’s all a big nothing — or ‘chasing after wind’ as it says in Ecclesiastes & therefore, at least up to the present, nothing has caused me too much grief.

The timeless pessimism of the 3rd-century writer known as Ecclesiastes 1:9 points us to the enduring essence of the human heart and the amazing bodies that bear it: “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”